The other Bellboy

Love it - one of my favourite shows and sayings 🙂

I would love to do that with the kids, some warm clothes and sleeping bags is a great idea - that would be a fantastic memory to see a sunrise on the Monday morning 🙂

God, i wish i could, i could drink and dance 24/7 back in 2007, without a care in the world - too many years of doing that has taken its toll unfortunately. Even though its been 5 years since my last visit, it still comes back quickly when you get there, there can only ever be one first time as Neil says - wish that wasn't the case, not making the most of that first trip in2007 is one of my biggest regrets. The kids haven't been since 2017 so for them it will be like a first time as they don't really remember any of their 3 trips there.

I had a good walk around in 2019 and they were all booked up - can't remember if it was Wednesday or Thursday though. do you remember what time they start in the morning? 15 quid - how long is that for? Its been a while since i've had a massage in the UK, maybe 10 years and i'm sure it was more like 50 quid for an hour

Thank you everyone, for sure, i'll not be doing anything like queuing for the secret piano bar, I hate waiting at the best of times and I do always think that every minute spent queuing is one precious minute lost - especially at Glastonbury where its just a finite time of 5 days. I had an halloumi cone in one of the early years - remember asking and paying for extra but some bugger had claimed it as theirs before i could grab it, so had to wait for another one to be made. I must try and get up the ribbon tower and see a set on the park stage - never done either of those. I also do want to do an all nighter but will have my 2 kids with me, I am looking to get a helper to come along to the festival so I can have 1 or maybe even 2 very late nights or very early mornings, the kids would have no problem staying up till 12 or even 1 but would then sleep in most of the next day and I don't want to waste any time whilst there. I've never had a massage or spent much time in the circus / theatre area so these are 2 things I will try and make up for. The music has never been the main draw for me, so there's no excuse for us not spending more time away from the main stages when they are on. I will make sure to go back out of gate C at night to view the festival from there, because that was the first place I saw it from when arriving late on the Thursday night in 2007 - that memory has always stayed with me and every year I stand in the same place to take it all in - though it seems a little less is visible each time as some of the trees keep growing.

Hi all, this year is going to be the last time I attend the festival. Its too far away and too expensive to travel too and I can't push myself like I used to in the early years (so can't make the most of it when I'm there). Anyway, over the years I've heard things about tomato fights, paint fights and all sorts of secret or special things that go on, which somehow I've always seemed to miss. I'm looking to make this last trip as special and memorable as possible, so what would you recommend or have on your activity list if it was your last time at the festival? Cheers.

I tried to book our flights over using my NZ account and it kept failing on the authenticator, so i switched to trying from my UK account, had to authenticate it on the App, but it worked no problem at all and it was for 4 tickets in business class, so not a small amount of money at all. In the end it looks like its mostly down to the bank, ASB does see seem to be risk averse, difficult to spend your own money with them sometimes, maybe just worth checking with your bank in advance if you don't have other options if your first try fails.

Picked up my daughters passport with her UK visa in it on Friday. Now just need to cancel of the flight bookings as the kids mother will not be joining us on the trip and begin the search to find some childminding help during the trip and during the festival, thank fully the lovefields ticket can be used by anyone so that should help in the search:)

Just sorting out the documents ready for attaching to my daughters visa application, will be able to submit later this week, getting the visa is almost the last piece of the puzzle for us. Should know by the end of March. Haven't looked at flight prices since booking, be pissed if they have come down over the last month or so 😞

We've only been to Womad since being here, went last year for the first time and enjoyed it much more than expected so will be going back next month - maybe 15000 or so people there - so enough to make the weekend nice. With the Sunday crowd and dependent on which figures you take - Glastonbury could pip Wellington and make it to the 3rd largest city, would be interesting to see that physical size overlay thing that was going around to compare the land size as well.

I've talked endlessly about it whenever I can during my 6 years here and am always wearing something with Glastonbury on it (and so are the kids too - but they keep growing out of stuff). People are fascinated by it because there's nothing remotely like it here. I did see a lady in our local supermarket with the same 2016 coat on, but other than that I've never seen anyone else in Glasto related stuff. We also have 3 campervan passes still stuck to the screen of the van, that's raised a few comments over the years too. If you visited Wellington, would have been great to have spotted someone else with a Glasto T shirt on 🙂

Paid the rest of the glamping charges, so that's the flights, the accommodation and the tickets now secured.

Thank you so much:) - the weather is the only thing i'm worrying about, it just feels like we are due a bad one - been through a few rough ones in the past, but really don't fancy going through one again. Positive thoughts only from now on 😉

We're treating this as a once in a lifetime final visit to the festival, so have pushed the boat out big style and its costing more than I care to think about (and will never share on here for sure), but for us its worth it and we are going to enjoy every second of all of the luxury and travelling lite from the time we leave NZ to the time we get back - sometimes you just have to go for it and enjoy what you want, whilst you still can.

Seeing all the comments about 2025 headliners made me think the same thing 🙂